Some pictures I took recently

Bonedigger · 23-07-2014 8:42pm

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paulusdu · 23-07-2014 8:58pm

Keps, is that down in Doolin ? (the long legs)

keps · 23-07-2014 9:59pm

paulusdu wrote: »

Keps, is that down in Doolin ? (the long legs)

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Yes indeed - it's just as you exit the 'harbour' by boat .- on that mini island there

Vizzy · 23-07-2014 10:52pm

keps wrote: »

j
Yes indeed - it's just as you exit the 'harbour' by boat .- on that mini island there

Crab Island, great (and extremely dangerous) surf spot .

keps · 23-07-2014 11:22pm

On the boat rail

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Bonedigger · 24-07-2014 12:06am

Hey Keps - Have you nothing better to do on holidays but to post on boards?
Take a break man!:D
Just kidding of course.I'm enjoying your pics from what is a beautiful part of the world.:)

keps · 24-07-2014 12:06am

Close to the water

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keps · 24-07-2014 8:28pm

I'll put a few together;)- from Clare

Great black backed gull

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Think this is its 'chick' - kept following it around looking for food - but had a black beak??

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blue4ever · 25-07-2014 4:36pm

A swan cools itself in the falling water from the waterfall @ Rathfarnham Weir on the Dodder.

I was particularly jealous...

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Bonedigger · 27-07-2014 6:11pm

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Fruit1985 · 27-07-2014 6:22pm

Robin Red Breast, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin

Capercaille · 27-07-2014 6:33pm

V_Moth · 28-07-2014 9:30am

keps wrote: »

I'll put a few together;)- from Clare

Great black backed gull

Think this is its 'chick' - kept following it around looking for food - but had a black beak??

Unless it is a trick of the light, it looks to dark to me for a juvenile Great BB Gull - see here for example. I suspect it might be a juvenile Herring or Lesser Black-backed Gull opportunistically following the GBB Gull and hoping for some scraps.

On the boat rail

For whatever reason, Rock Pipits seem to frequently visit boats. I have seen them flying out even considerable distances (2 or 3 kms) over the sea out to a boat, have a quick look around before flying back again.

keps · 28-07-2014 9:38am

Thanks V Moth for taking the time to respond... it may have been the light ok( or my under-exposure) as here is another shot of the same bird from a different angle

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keps · 29-07-2014 1:47pm

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keps · 29-07-2014 9:43pm

Starlings sunbathing today on the back-garden hedge

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Bonedigger · 30-07-2014 12:06am

Small Copper:

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Six-spot Burnet cocoon with pupa inside:

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Newly emerged Six-spot Burnet(note the pupa wedged at the top of the cocoon):

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V_Moth · 30-07-2014 10:50am

keps wrote: »

Thanks V Moth for taking the time to respond... it may have been the light ok( or my under-exposure) as here is another shot of the same bird from a different angle

Yeah, definitely not a Great Black-back youngster. Possibly a Lesser BB Gull as it looks slightly pale for a Herring Gull, but there is some overlap.

keps · 30-07-2014 9:39pm

Just blending in

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Bonedigger · 30-07-2014 9:53pm

Eyebright - Euphrasia officinalis

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Capercaille · 30-07-2014 9:57pm

From coastal machair, Is this eyebright as well?

Bonedigger · 30-07-2014 9:59pm

Yes,that's Eyebright as well.I live close to the Curragh in Co.Kildare and it's absolutely covered with it at the moment.It's a really pretty little plant.

bernard0368 · 30-07-2014 10:25pm

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splish · 31-07-2014 1:11pm

Hetertoma planicornis, a mirid bug with distinctive broad and flattened 2nd antennal segment.

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keps · 31-07-2014 7:39pm

Didn't have the right lens today so these are large 'blow-ups' - but they show in their own grainy way a grey wagtail feeding

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The second photo is at 1/5000th sec

Cork boy 55 · 31-07-2014 10:19pm

Cinnabar Larvae (Tyria jacobaeae)

hhh 004 by cork boy 55, on Flickr

Cork boy 55 · 31-07-2014 10:47pm

Entrance to Glenanair Forest, Ballyhoura Mountains, Ireland

Glenanair forest by cork boy 55, on Flickr

keps · 31-07-2014 11:12pm

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splish · 01-08-2014 9:12am

Barkfly

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Ichneumonid

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Eriothrix rufomaculata

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Flying ant

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Neoitamus cyanurus

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OpenYourEyes · 01-08-2014 4:10pm

Common Tern in flight on Rockabill.
(Picture taken under NPWS license)

Common Tern, Rockabill by BBurke88, on Flickr

Bonedigger · 01-08-2014 5:57pm

That's a stunning shot OpenYourEyes!:)

Bonedigger · 02-08-2014 10:41am

Meadow Brown feeding on Sage(Salvia):

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splish · 02-08-2014 10:48am

Two hoverflies from the garden yesterday.

Rhingia campestris

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Scaeva pyrastri

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keps · 02-08-2014 6:42pm

flora and fauna

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-08-2014 7:10pm

But which is which?

vistafinder · 02-08-2014 8:00pm

Mink

Mink by vistafind, on Flickr

Mute Swan

Swan by vistafind, on Flickr

Cormorant taking off

Cormorant by vistafind, on Flickr

Not sure what this is?

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A yellowish Green Vein White

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A Lovely Little Robin

Robin by vistafind, on Flickr

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-08-2014 8:04pm

A sleepy looking young woodmouse.

vistafinder · 02-08-2014 8:13pm

I think it was sick. It was sitting on the matt outside the backdoor.

splish · 03-08-2014 3:57pm

Riponnensia splendens, a hoverfly.

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Bonedigger · 04-08-2014 6:03pm

The wonderfully named Marmalade Hoverfly:

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Cork boy 55 · 04-08-2014 6:44pm

Sand Martin Colony in abandoned Quarry.

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thyme · 04-08-2014 8:44pm

Two Buzzard juveniles that was born near here, no basket needed

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This one wasn't fed , so it followed the parent calling out to it.

And this one got a frog to eat.

bernard0368 · 04-08-2014 10:04pm

A type of wasp I presume, Anyone know its proper name??

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splish · 04-08-2014 11:00pm

bernard0368 wrote: »

A type of wasp I presume, Anyone know its proper name

I think its a fungus gnat (Sciara sp). Could be something like Sciara hemerobioides.

V Bull · 06-08-2014 10:03am

Great Black-backed Gull...

Gannet...

Puffin...

Chough...

Another Gannet...

splish · 06-08-2014 1:37pm

A few more hoverflies.

Leucozona glaucia

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Sphaerophoria scripta

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Eupeodes corollae

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Eupeodes luniger

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Rainbowsend · 06-08-2014 9:58pm

Really nice hover fly shots, is it my imagination or is there
an abundance of these little fellas around at the moment?

Eyepatch · 07-08-2014 9:44am

I've just noticed thousands of them in my garden for the first time yesterday. They were landing on the leaves of a bamboo plant I have and crwling on them over and over again.

Alun · 07-08-2014 10:23am

Rainbowsend wrote: »

Really nice hover fly shots, is it my imagination or is there an abundance of these little fellas around at the moment?

Seems like it ... there's loads of them in the garden, a few in the house and also in my conservatory, although they're busy pollinating my chilli plants in there so I don't have a problem with that

They seem pretty 'tame' too (if you can say that of a fly!) in as much as you can pick them up easily and put them outside .. they just sit on your hand or finger until you get outside and set them free.

Caught this one feasting on a drop of honey I let fall on the kitchen worktop yesterday ...

Amalgam · 07-08-2014 12:57pm

[hover]Did someone mention HoverFlies?[/hover]

Flowering Fennel in our back garden, teeming with life.

4000x3000 Gallery: http://postimg.org/gallery/2qx26ar3s/

Some pictures I took recently

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